am I a meanie?

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LOL. Oh I'm just so frustrated this evening. I have a neighbor whose son has sensory processing difficulties. They are mild compared to what has. The thing is, I feel like this neighbor takes advantage of me. She doesn't show up at the bus stop knowing that I'll be there most of the time. If he comes to my house she doesn't pick him up on time. Sometimes I suggest an extension if the kids are playing really well but plenty of times I really want her to come get him and she's out for ages and when I finally get her on the phone she says, "Oh I thought you'd probably call soon." Ummm, yeah.

So her kid needs some social coaching and I'm having to do some of it and I just don't have the patience to deal with anything else in my life. I'm just so angry with this woman right now. I dropped my daughter off for a while at HER house (for once) today and popped in to find out if she needed me to come get my daughter at a particular time. While I was there the dog wanted to come in. She always lets him in right away so I let him in and was talking to him. I was trying to get him to lie down and she yelled at me to not make him lie down. Then about 30 seconds later her kid comes in the room and says very very rudely, "I SHE going to be here the WHOLE time?!" Okay, now I get that he has some social skill issues so I'd be fine with that but his mom didn't say a THING. He does this regularly at my house as well as his own. It seems so weird to me since my kids always want me around.

Anyway, if my son had said that I'd have talked to him about how to talk to people and ask him to use different words. Maybe I'd have laughed and said something myself to the kid but I was still reeling from the crap about the DOG which I often look after when they're on trips when they ask me on super short NOTICE and then never follow through on bringing my kids something from where they are in return for caring for the dog. It's me, really. It's my fault because I let them walk all over me. Their kid isn't my responsiblity and neither is their stupid dog. I'm going to be saying "no" a lot more from now on because I just can't keep this up. Perimenopausal symptoms are making me crazy, I'm allergic to their stupid dog and I have problems with my own kids. has asperger syndrome and we went through all that crap with the bus driver and he's failing math and my daughter has sensory issues and OCD for which my

NEIGHBOR has so much GREAT freaking advice that she never takes herself. OMG.

Sorry everyone, I'm really ranting. Just so SICK of people walking on me. NO MORE!!!

Miriam Mim Mimmom

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